Someone also put a great deal of time and effort into writing a manual with a brief tutorial in its early pages. While I appreciate your comments about the viewing size (FretPet was written at a time when giant megapixel displays were rare) it is clear you did not approach the program on its own merits, but applied criteria beyond the program's intent to rate it.
For those who can take this program on its own merits, FretPet is a very useful tool that can provide all kinds of coherent compositional elements, if not whole compositions. It has a steep learning curve, which is why I recommend reading the manual thoroughly at least once through and taking advantage of extended tooltips.
I grant you that playing sequences through the built-in Quicktime synthesizer is far from an organic experience. Quicktime is included as a baseline due to its ubiquity and ease of support. For those who have external synth software like GarageBand and Absynth, the program plays far from "mechanically" - and there is a lot to be said for the choice of tempo and your personal compositional style as well.
I appreciate your taking time to write your impressions, but you completely missed the spirit and intent of this program. It is a program for playing, experimenting, and discovering, which is not everyone;s cup of tea. I have created several very interesting pieces of music using FretPet with more powerful synths like GarageBand, Absynth, and even an external Alesis Nano.
For those more willing to make the effort, I think you will find that FretPet opens up a world of musical surprises and insights.
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A lot of thought and effort. - slurslee
Someone also put a great deal of time and effort into writing a manual with a brief tutorial in its early pages. While I appreciate your comments about the viewing size (FretPet was written at a time when giant megapixel displays were rare) it is clear you did not approach the program on its own merits, but applied criteria beyond the program's intent to rate it.For those who can take this program on its own merits, FretPet is a very useful tool that can provide all kinds of coherent compositional elements, if not whole compositions. It has a steep learning curve, which is why I recommend reading the manual thoroughly at least once through and taking advantage of extended tooltips.
I grant you that playing sequences through the built-in Quicktime synthesizer is far from an organic experience. Quicktime is included as a baseline due to its ubiquity and ease of support. For those who have external synth software like GarageBand and Absynth, the program plays far from "mechanically" - and there is a lot to be said for the choice of tempo and your personal compositional style as well.
I appreciate your taking time to write your impressions, but you completely missed the spirit and intent of this program. It is a program for playing, experimenting, and discovering, which is not everyone;s cup of tea. I have created several very interesting pieces of music using FretPet with more powerful synths like GarageBand, Absynth, and even an external Alesis Nano.
For those more willing to make the effort, I think you will find that FretPet opens up a world of musical surprises and insights.
- Scott "Somebody" Lahteine, developer
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